Planning to build a website

We won't be going through this section in detail in the tutorial. We'll be building a sample site with a lot of this thinking already done. But if you want to use your own sample content, have a think about these things and come prepared!

Or if you want to choose your own dummy content, rather than use the samples provided... here's some fun sites to peruse.

Building a website with Drupal 8

Basic site configuration

Nodes and other entities

Default content types

Custom content types

Go to SITEURL/admin/structure/types/add

Users

anon

auth

admin

Roles

Permissions

Taxonomy

Menus

We get a few menus out of the box

But we can also create menus

Views

Views. The single most popular module for previous versions of Drupal, is now in core. It's a powerhouse. But complex. We'll start simple.
Views is a list maker, a query generator. It lets you slice and dice your content in all sorts of wonderful ways.